Their ordeal continued the next morning when they were mocked over breakfast
by guardsmen who had seen the video, which had been pinged around the
barracks via email, WhatsApp and SnapChat.

Our source explained: “The footage had spread like wildfire. Everyone was on
their phones and pointing out the blokes it had happened to.

“They were mocked for being gay, although they were forced into the acts. It
was horrific and worse than anything I have ever known in the Army.” Footage
was also allegedly sent to the Officers’ Mess and one reported it to the
victims’ Regimental Sergeant Major.

The RSM then called the pair into his office and told them he was launching an
investigation.

The source added: “The RSM was rightly horrified and I think he apologised to
the guys.

“The Military Police got involved and it was reported to them as a rape as
there were guys there that could have stopped it but didn’t.”

A Lance Corporal is said to have been disciplined and five other soldiers have
also reportedly been punished.

Surrey Police are also believed to have opened an investigation, although
sources believe top brass are desperate to keep the incident in house.

One of the victims is still with the battalion and is said to have suffered
more bullying.

He is currently on sick leave and it is believed the Army are preparing to
discharge him.

The source added: “It is outrageous what has happened to these two. All the
Companies have initiation ceremonies but none like this.

“The Prince of Wales Company, for example, just make recruits drink weird
concoctions, which is a long way from sexual abuse.

“The guy who is leaving is taking an Administrative Discharge because he just
wants out, and the other bloke is having problems too.

“They are both young guys who just wanted to be in the Army and for this to
happen and potentially ruin their careers is absolutely appalling.”

Pirbright, near Woking in Surrey is close to Deepcut barracks, where four
recruits died in mystery shootings over seven years amid claims of bullying.

Private Cheryl James, 18, whose death at Deepcut in 1995 is being re-examined
at an inquest, did her ten-week basic training at Pirbright.

The Welsh Guards, motto Wales Forever, has a proud history as an infantry
battalion, dating back to World War One.

They served with distinction in The Falklands and help guard Buckingham
Palace.

Prince Charles is Colonel of the Regiment while The Queen is its Colonel in
Chief.

An Army spokesman told The Sun on Sunday: “We can confirm an incident did take
place and details were referred to the Royal Military Police for an initial
investigation. No allegations of coercive or criminal behaviour were made.

“However this behaviour is unacceptable and administrative action was taken
against those present, with disciplinary measures taken against one
individual.”

Initiated in deadly violence

A CORONER blasted the Army tradition of beasting in another case after a
soldier collapsed and died in searing heat.

Private Gavin Williams, 22, protested that he did not feel “up to” any brutal
punishment.

But he was dragged from his room and forced to march quickly in a circuit at
Lucknow barracks in Tidworth, Wilts, in 2006.

He died of heatstroke after collapsing and three soldiers were later cleared
of manslaughter. But coroner Alan Large said the Army failed to notice the
fundamental defects in the disciplinary and punishment system.

The year before a bullying Marine kicked a naked recruit unconscious at a
drunken initiation ceremony.

Top brass insisted the beasting was “just lads letting off steam” at Bickleigh
Barracks, near Plymouth, home to the elite 42 Commando.

Head of the Army General Sir Nicholas Carter said last month lessons were
learned. He said: “It’d be difficult for those things to happen again
because we’ve changed our culture.”

Our revelations come after it emerged a total of 450 Armed Forces’ sex attacks
have been reported to military police in five years.

Sgt Edwin Mee, 46, was jailed last month for 13 rapes and sex assaults on
young female recruits in Croydon, South London.

Kick out perverts

By COLONEL RICHARD KEMP,Ex-Forces Commander

THIS behaviour runs directly against the standards and ethos of the Welsh
Guards.

They are one of our finest infantry regiments whose men made huge sacrifices
on the battlefields of the Somme 100 years ago and have fought valiantly in
many conflicts since.

The Army will take the most vigorous disciplinary action against those
responsible. I expect the soldiers who forced the recruits to these acts of
depravity to be thrown out.

However, this perverted behaviour is not in the culture of the British Army.
Its origins are in the shocking modern-day sexting epidemic where sexual
activities are filmed on mobile phones and spread around the internet.

The breakdown of boundaries and erosion of morality in society as a whole
holds the key to this sick episode.